I guess if you're that thin and that small you don't need to take up too much space or breathe that much air. You just keep on going.

You don't run out on people; you run out on yourself.

Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

When seriously explored, the short story seems to me the most difficult and disciplining form of prose writing extant. Whatever control and technique I may have I owe entirely to my training in this medium.

I think most people are very, very much motivated by sex - greed, sex, and hunger.

A beautiful day with the buoyancy of a bird.

A man who doesn't dream is like a man who doesn't sweat. He stores up a lot of poison.